Russia warns response to US sanctions on RT will make ‘everyone shudder’
Al Jazeera
Moscow claims new measures against the media network’s top editors are part of an ‘information campaign’ before US presidential vote.
Russia has said it will take retaliatory measures after the United States announced sanctions against its state-funded media network RT, threatening they will make “everyone shudder”.
Washington’s actions against state broadcaster RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and her deputy Elizaveta Brodskaia was “an information campaign” ahead of the US presidential elections in November, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
“When the authorities resort to such primitive ways of influencing their voters, this is the decline of ‘liberal democracies’,” ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Thursday.
“There will be a response,” Zakharova said.
On Wednesday, two other RT employees, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, were indicted by the US for trying to influence the upcoming vote.
